You can't compare ownership of hard goods and owenrship of software. It doesn't make sense to apply the same law to those fundamentaly differents things. Protecting hard goods: Good. Protecting software the same as natural goods: Bad. That's why I'm Against Intelectual Property.
'nuf said.
I learned English with Tunnel of Doom. But Parsec was my fav. No-one knew how to fuel up the ship in the 3-rd stage fuel-up-sequence as secure as I(well, no-one in my family anyway;)
All that investment in playing and perfecting that 180-degree spin-rocket jump-switch to railgun-mid-air frag doesn't amount to much anywhere else except in that virtual world. Isn't there anything more constructive to do? Again, don't get me wrong, I love to play, but I think I do so in moderation. I can't imagine that these skills are developed overnight, so investing all those hours and hours of playing just seems so wasteful.
Or maybe I'm just jealous....:)
Do you watch tv sometimes? I guess you do. Will you watch Sydney and the olympic games? Maybe you will. Now let's compare "180-degree spin-rocket jump-switch to railgun-mid-air frag" with simple 1000m running. Those athlets are training themselfs half of their lifes to run like hell on a distance of 1000 meters to go where? No-where! They run in circles!
I think FPS are close to become part of the olympic games.... ;)
Don't think Borland is trying to help to get linux develeopers anywhere, their goal is clear to me anyway: Pushing out every graphical-library of linux and get their own GUI-Library into every distribution. Thus placing them into the linux desktop-monopoly and taking over a major part of the future linux-world. Or why do you think their project sound like "Kill - X" ?!?
Jon Katz, does your self-importance have no bounds? Is there really nothing else you can write about but yourself? It's true that Joyce was always writing about himself: but you're no James Joyce. I am sick and tired of seeing well thought-out, constructive, and well-written criticisms of your meandering, self-centered rants dismissed as "flames"... *snip*
I completly agree with you. Whimps as Katz should not be allowed to post stories. We are all hardened professionals that can take any flame. Our goal is to inform Nerds. Our Goal is to serve. Never speek about yourself or how you feel. Your personal feelings or of no interest. Never.
Now, why am I being so hard on Katz? There is one big reason: I don't want/. to slide further down the same path as Usenet. Slashdot is not and never was a free-for-all forum. It is editing in two ways: by Rob & Co. chosing what and what not to post, and by those arbitrarily chosen for moderatorial duties. Without effective editorial control, any forum rapidly sinks to the level of lowest common denominator... *snipp*
That's competly my point. We work hard on post and comment stories to make things look interesting. We try hard to show our glorious post to the world. But such whimps like Katz make us look weak and whiny. Censor him, kill him, bury him somewhere.
Okay Paul, let's get back to normal.
I can't follow you. Why someone shouldn't post about himself? I agree that the stories are choosen by the slashdot team. That might not be the best sollution, that's not a secret. But what IS the best solution? Do you got any propositions?
I think you are very rude against Katz. Rude for no reason./. is a very open forum and anyone with an good idea can post something and get's heard. Aparantly you try to make/. better by ranting (aka flaming), I don't see how this could work IMNHO.
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Why do you want to wait until Cmdrtaco resigns? The code which mentains this site runs under GPL, so why don't you do it yourself?!?
I don't buy this. Please, you accuse RMS to FUD against Java. Why don't you state where he does this? What do you call FUD here? Is criticizing the position of SUN FUD? Is calling to support a GPL'ed Version of Java FUD? Enlighten me!
I remember when people began to switch from Amiga/Atari to PC's. Switching to it was a real pain in the ass. Installing onto a harddrive was uncommon (for many), searching for IRC and such was really wierd, editing autoexec.bat and config.sys was considered as black-magic.
We all hated the new machines and the things we need to do in order to make it run and began to love our old machines even more. But we did it, just because there was a new blazing fast and exiting game waiting for us to be played. We needed it to run. So we accepted the pain.
We all managed to install most things sooner or later. Installation after installation things were getting more common. First we had to ask friends how to do it, later we introduced other newbies. Now: "What does this mean for linux?"
Most gaming kids are pretty fast learning, and they bring their own community with them. They got their own friends who help them out and they help out other kids wherever they can.
It won't be the same as with the internet-newbies. There are many reasons why:
The users will be younger and (well, hopefully;) smarter.
They bring thier own (allready mentioned) community.
For many internet-newbies it is serious business. So they need to get the knowledge, even if they aren't able to. So they tread the knowledgebases accordingly. Games are used for fun.
I'm sure there will be more newbies on the mailing list. And the load will be remarkable. But some of those kids will want to learn more of this strange system called "linux". There will be a growth of the newbie programers and hackers too. And it will be something good.
Linux shouldn't make the same mistake as BSD to consider itself as 'elite', (well, as far as I've heard of it) and shut the doors for a new kind of users. I think the linux community should think of themselves as a bunch of people wanting to have fun. A community that is ready to help anyone who is interested to do the same. A community who is proud that it has so many users that they use their own stable and sexy system. Because that's what it is.
Hey, thanks pal for the link. But I have already downloaded it before I wrote my last post.
When I said "I will never code in Eiffel", I didn't say I would never program SMALLEiffel. Sadly I didn't had enough time since now to really get into it.
Now this might be completly offtopic, but I really feel the need to reply on this one.
I've seen Eifel and it's a nice programing language. Well I've never written code for it because it's proprietery and it isn't cheap. But what I REALLY wanted to say is: Eifel and any other programing language won't change the problem we got with software quality A BIT! "A fool with a tool is still a fool" (don't remenber who said this one) and someone who doens't care to make good code under C won't care to make good code under Eifel.
So please, before you mention another Silver Bullet. Say what it is really worth and under what conditions. Greets MadMike
I'm not a professional Sun observer nor am I a professional Microsoft observer. But I don't like the idea of a big bully just being replaced by another one. Does Sun like GNU? Why should they? Do they like a community could make their software AND hardware obsolete? I don't think so. I'm suspicious toward sun, right now they got someone to kill. But what happens when Microsoft's gone?
The first book i have read was "Small Gods", "Equal Rites" and "The Color of Magic". I've read them in that order and found all of them extraordinaly funny. Even though only the "Color of Magic" contains the two 'heros' TwoFlower and Rincewind, I found that Terry Pratchett don't need to rely on them to write funny books.
IMHO, the Discoworld is too big being traveled by only a handful of standard characters. And then a last word about consitency: The early books are those where Prachett is unable to tell one story at once. Only on his later books he was able to grip on a main story and only deviated a bit to tell some side-stories along.
"How much longer until man realizes that nature is much more then what we perceive... Science today is advancing fast, but shouldn't we be starting from the other end. "
So all Science lead to destruction of ourself? Is is what you try to tell here? I don't belive in things being "evil" or "good" by nature. I believe that everything is clearly neutral until some one conscious living creature (someone might say that we don't belong to them...) use it for a specific propose.
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... and I thought, IBM developed this thing for their ThinkPad. Hmm.
Well, here we got someone with a clue. Nice post.
The one who has choosen the title deserves a spank.
'nuf said.
You can't compare ownership of hard goods and owenrship of software. It doesn't make sense to apply the same law to those fundamentaly differents things.
Protecting hard goods: Good. Protecting software the same as natural goods: Bad. That's why I'm Against Intelectual Property.
'nuf said.
I learned English with Tunnel of Doom. But Parsec was my fav. No-one knew how to fuel up the ship in the 3-rd stage fuel-up-sequence as secure as I(well, no-one in my family anyway ;)
Now let's compare "180-degree spin-rocket jump-switch to railgun-mid-air frag" with simple 1000m running. Those athlets are training themselfs half of their lifes to run like hell on a distance of 1000 meters to go where? No-where! They run in circles!
I think FPS are close to become part of the olympic games....
;)
Forgetting that Internet is international are we? Don't forget that this is not all just about americans.
Thank you for your short moment of attention. ;)
Greets.
Seems you haven't seen the ";)" at the end of my comment. My post was intendet to be a pun. But maybe it wasn't that funny after all.... :/
;)
Okay Paul, let's get back to normal.
I can't follow you. Why someone shouldn't post about himself? I agree that the stories are choosen by the slashdot team. That might not be the best sollution, that's not a secret. But what IS the best solution? Do you got any propositions?
I think you are very rude against Katz. Rude for no reason. /. is a very open forum and anyone with an good idea can post something and get's heard. Aparantly you try to make /. better by ranting (aka flaming), I don't see how this could work IMNHO.
Why do you want to wait until Cmdrtaco resigns? The code which mentains this site runs under GPL, so why don't you do it yourself?!?
I don't buy this. Please, you accuse RMS to FUD against Java. Why don't you state where he does this? What do you call FUD here? Is criticizing the position of SUN FUD? Is calling to support a GPL'ed Version of Java FUD? Enlighten me!
We all hated the new machines and the things we need to do in order to make it run and began to love our old machines even more. But we did it, just because there was a new blazing fast and exiting game waiting for us to be played. We needed it to run. So we accepted the pain.
We all managed to install most things sooner or later. Installation after installation things were getting more common. First we had to ask friends how to do it, later we introduced other newbies. Now: "What does this mean for linux?"
Most gaming kids are pretty fast learning, and they bring their own community with them. They got their own friends who help them out and they help out other kids wherever they can.
It won't be the same as with the internet-newbies. There are many reasons why:
I'm sure there will be more newbies on the mailing list. And the load will be remarkable. But some of those kids will want to learn more of this strange system called "linux". There will be a growth of the newbie programers and hackers too. And it will be something good.
Linux shouldn't make the same mistake as BSD to consider itself as 'elite', (well, as far as I've heard of it) and shut the doors for a new kind of users.
I think the linux community should think of themselves as a bunch of people wanting to have fun. A community that is ready to help anyone who is interested to do the same. A community who is proud that it has so many users that they use their own stable and sexy system. Because that's what it is.
Hey, thanks pal for the link. But I have already downloaded it before I wrote my last post.
When I said "I will never code in Eiffel", I didn't say I would never program SMALLEiffel. Sadly I didn't had enough time since now to really get into it.
I've seen Eifel and it's a nice programing language. Well I've never written code for it because it's proprietery and it isn't cheap. But what I REALLY wanted to say is:
Eifel and any other programing language won't change the problem we got with software quality A BIT! "A fool with a tool is still a fool" (don't remenber who said this one) and someone who doens't care to make good code under C won't care to make good code under Eifel.
So please, before you mention another Silver Bullet. Say what it is really worth and under what conditions. Greets MadMike
just my 2 cents ;)
I'm not a professional Sun observer nor am I a professional Microsoft observer. But I don't like the idea of a big bully just being replaced by another one.
Does Sun like GNU? Why should they? Do they like a community could make their software AND hardware obsolete? I don't think so.
I'm suspicious toward sun, right now they got someone to kill. But what happens when Microsoft's gone?
The first book i have read was "Small Gods", "Equal Rites" and "The Color of Magic". I've read them in that order and found all of them extraordinaly funny. Even though only the "Color of Magic" contains the two 'heros' TwoFlower and Rincewind, I found that Terry Pratchett don't need to rely on them to write funny books.
IMHO, the Discoworld is too big being traveled by only a handful of standard characters. And then a last word about consitency:
The early books are those where Prachett is unable to tell one story at once. Only on his later books he was able to grip on a main story and only deviated a bit to tell some side-stories along.
"How much longer until man realizes that nature is much more then what we perceive... Science today is advancing fast, but shouldn't we be starting from the other end. "
So all Science lead to destruction of ourself? Is is what you try to tell here? I don't belive in things being "evil" or "good" by nature. I believe that everything is clearly neutral until some one conscious living creature (someone might say that we don't belong to them...) use it for a specific propose.